Furniture Making - a foundation course
the new cabinet-making course book by John Bullar
how to make chairs how to make a table how to build a bed how to make boxes how to make a bookcase how to make a cabinet
'Furniture Making - a foundation course' is available direct from the publishers: Fox Chapel Publishing
or from: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com and Borders .com
Also published in UK as 'Cabinetmaking - a foundation course' available direct from the publishers:
Guild of Master Craftsman Publications
or from: Waterstones.com, Tesco.com Books
W H Smith.co.uk and Amazon.co.uk
Furniture Making Planes
All about Bailey planes, Bedrock planes, Norris planes and block planes, how planes work and how to use them: plane cutters, chipbreakers, lever caps and frogs. Bench planes, smoothing planes, jack plane, jointers.
Drawer Making
Drawers with lapped dovetail joints, drawer slips, router jig dovetails. Drawer rails, kickers, runners, muntins, guides. Quarter sawn oak sides, cedar of Lebanon drawer base.
Make a Cabinet from Elm
Environmentally friendly woodwork. Frame and panel work, haunched mortise and tenon and dovetail carcass joints, rebate plane, book-matched fielded panels, Danish oil.
Furniture Makers Chisels
When to use bevel edged chisels, firmer chisels and mortise chisels is explained in chapter 3. Chopping and paring with a chisel. Sharpening and honing Oire Nomi Japanese chisels.
Woodworking Routers
Explanation of router direction, fences, bearing guided cutter is in chapter 14, with dovetail jigs, mortise and tenon jigs, TCT and HSS bits, Domino jointers, biscuit jointers, dowel jointers.
King Sized Bed - how to build it from Oak
Mission style king-sized bed in solid oak, double mortise and tenon joints, unbolts for transport, biscuit joints, slatted headboard, divan support.
Furniture Making Saws
This chapter is all about tenon saws, dovetail saws, rip-saws, crosscut saws. Teeth per inch, saw kerf. Marking out, sawing to a knife line.
Jointer / Thicknesser
Surface planing techniques, edge planing, jointing. Feeding a thicknesser, Adjusting jointer knives. Sniped board end, grinding and honing a planer knife.
Fine Jewelry Box - how to make it
with coopered lid, dovetailed sides, fitting brass hinges, curved panel produced by coopering techniques, cutting fine dovetail joints on a bandsaw.
Dovetailed Corners
Chapter 8 tells you how to mark and cut dovetail pins, shoulders, tails and shoulder lines, a through dovetail, a lapped dovetail, a half-blind dovetail, a carcass dovetail and a secret-mitre dovetail.
Furniture Makers Bandsaw
Chapter 13 gives details of bandsaw guides, roller bearing, coolblock, ceramic guide, bandsaw teeth, tpi, skipped tooth, gullets, resawing, cast iron table bandsaws, blade tension, bandsaw alignment.
Make a Modern Table
Contemporary minimal style, walnut veneered top, solid walnut legs, bandsawing walnut veneer, secret dovetail corner joints, HVLP spray lacquer for a resistant acrylic finish.
Selecting timber for Furniture Making
Chapter 1 is about buying hardwoods - oak, walnut, ash, elm, kiln-dried or air-dried lumber. What is moisture content and why does it matter? Will you buy rough-sawn lumber or ready planed?
Scraping Tools
Preparing and using fine edge scrapers, Goose neck scrapers. Prepare a wood surface, scraper hook edge. Scratch stocks for fine inlay or shaped beading.
Wood Laminations
Chapter 15 tells you how to create curved wood, rip saw lamina with a bandsaw. Gluing lamina, formers, cauls, cramping or clamping. Vacuum press, glue lines, finishing laminated wood.
Butt Jointing Edges
Chapter 6 tells you how to plane an accurate reference face. Use winding sticks or line of sight to guard against twisting. Use a try-square, plane accurate edges then parallel thicknessing.
Make your own Veneer
Make your own veneers, is veneer as good as solid wood? Chapter 16 tells you bandsaw blade width and tension for veneer thickness 2mm, gluing veneer, veneer presses, bag presses.
Make a stool from Oak
Direct marking woodwork, try-square, marking knife, sawing tenon shoulders, edge joints and bridle joints, PVA glue, micro-chamfered edges, beeswax polish.
Furniture Making Joints
Chapter 7 is all about mortise and tenon joints, shoulder lines, tenon cheeks. Sawing tenons, chopping mortises. Bridle joint, haunched mortice and tenon.
Make a Wardrobe from Oak
A mission style wardrobe, solid oak tapered frame, simple drawer construction, bookmatched doors, Danish oil, bees wax, bronze Arts & Crafts handles.
Make Bedside Cabinets from Oak
Mission style, arched mortice and tenon rails, slats, edge jointing boards, plane clamped together as a pair, drawer side hung rails, half blind dovetails, stub tenons.
Wood Dust Control
Chapter 10 tells you all about fine dust extractors, dust and chipping extractors, HEPA filters, lossses in ductwork and pipework. Air flow rate conversion cfm, lpm, cubic metres per hour.
Shaping Wood
Chapter 17 is all about making chair frames, lumbar support, templates and rods for chair stiles, legs, armrests, spokeshave, compass plane, router table, shaper/spindle moulder.
Demilune table - build it
Contemporary interpretation of the classic demi-lune table in oak and ebony, laminated oak apron rails, elliptical oak tabletop, ebony beading with a scratchstock, wooden sabots.
Tablesaws
Chapter 13 explains choosing and using table saws, cabinet saws, dimension saws or panel saws, saw kickback, arbor, crown guard, riving knife or splitter. Changing saw blades, TCT blades, teeth per inch.
Make a Bookcase from Oak
Arts & Crafts bookcase in solid oak, chamfered edges, dovetail housing joints, router joints, fine sanding Danish oil then beeswax.
Oak Dining chairs - how to make them
Carver chairs in solid brown oak, or other hardwoods, accurately hollowing seats with an arbortech or travisher, curved backrests, armrests with fox-wedged tenons.
About the Author
John Bullar has been writing for Furniture & Cabinetmaking Magazine since 1999 more ...
'Furniture Making - a foundation course' is available direct from the publishers: Fox Chapel Publishing
or from: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com and Borders .com
Also published in UK as 'Cabinetmaking - a foundation course' available direct from the publishers:
Guild of Master Craftsman Publications
or from: Waterstones.com, Tesco.com Books
W H Smith.co.uk and Amazon.co.uk
Furniture Making - a foundation course
the new furniture making course book by John Bullar